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[–] silverbax 222 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

That's literally every company.

As a manager, you get frustrated because no matter how good an employee is,they won't let you rate them as high as they should be, for...reasons.

[–] AllonzeeLV 153 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Psst!

Its because they don't want to raise their pay, and also want the employee to blame themselves for not getting the pay raise/promotion instead of their greedy employer.

But don't tell anyone. Its a secret!

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

another reason I heard is it's also another tool to give the company wiggle room to say they're not in the best state they could be, that there's still room for growth. under the current system, companies have to keep growing and keep appearing to have the potential for growth, or die

[–] AllonzeeLV 26 points 1 year ago

Unless you're telling your sick grandmother she looks great, deception as a standard practice makes you a deceiver. They're clearly comfortable with that, though.

[–] RedditReject 59 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I was actually told during a review that they couldn't rank me higher because then they'd have to give me more money. My boss said I deserved it, but they didn't have the money to give it to me.

I started looking for a new job that day.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And yet they always seem to have enough money for executive bonuses and excursions...

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Not to mention hiring the always more expensive replacement dev.

[–] Wogi 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Used to work for CenturyLink. The year they took away our Christmas bonus is the same year the company really took a nosedive.

CEO got a 20 ~~billion~~ million dollar bonus, enough to cover our Christmas bonuses and still give him 15 million.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Surely billion should be million there, no?

[–] Wogi 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

I had something similar! But my manager was a former dev that I worked for that didn't know how to manage and tried to convince me that I didn't deserve it.

I got a 30% raise moving elsewhere.

[–] Wogi 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My wife's company does this overtly.

Raises are based on performance scores, they were prohibited from giving top scores for any category, because "nobody's perfect."

But when asked what could be done better there's never any answer.

[–] ohlaph 25 points 1 year ago

It's why I focus on work life balance over everything else. No point in giving away weekends and nights for an average review. Average is perfectly rine with me, but that's also what I give now.

[–] ZooGuru 11 points 1 year ago

Yes. I work at a power plant in a large department. The best “ratings” that dictates our bonus multiplier is limited to five people because there are certainly only five people whose performance exceeds expectations. /s

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

The reason why is more that you have to justify top performmers against their peers and against their role responsibilities. That takes work and many managers dont want to do it.